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Should you believe anything BP says? - As gigantic oil plumes form under Gulf, BP recklessly ignores scientists' pleas: "We're not going to take any extra efforts now to calculate flow there at this point. It's not relevant to the response effort, and it m

If you had any lingering doubts about who was to blame for the disastrous undersea volcano of oil in the Gulf, last night's 60 Minutes utterly dispels them:

This makes clear that BP's cost- and corner-cutting caused this disaster.  Equally shocking is the story of BP's willful  and "fundamentally wrong" approach to safety on another well, the Atlantis.  Part 1 is well worth watching too.  A full transcript is here.

The 60 Minutes story is consistent with other reporting (see The three causes...

Should you believe anything BP says? - As gigantic oil plumes form under Gulf, BP recklessly ignores scientists' pleas: "We're not going to take any extra efforts now to calculate flow there at this point. It's not relevant to the response effort, and it m

If you had any lingering doubts about who was to blame for the disastrous undersea volcano of oil in the Gulf, last night's 60 Minutes utterly dispels them:

This makes clear that BP's cost- and corner-cutting caused this disaster.  Equally shocking is the story of BP's willful  and "fundamentally wrong" approach to safety on another well, the Atlantis.  Part 1 is well worth watching too.  A full transcript is here.

The 60 Minutes story is consistent with other reporting (see The three causes...

The American Power Act cuts pollution and helps American families

Question: Why do we need comprehensive clean energy legislation? What types of measures are included in the draft American Power Act? How will these provisions help American families?

CAP's Daniel J. Weiss, Senior Fellow and Director of Climate Strategy, explains in this edition of Ask the Expert.

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Senator Kerry explains the strategy and substance of the American Power Act: "It strengthens the Clean Air Act by expanding the authority of the EPA and making that authority...

Energy and Global Warming News for May 17th 2010: LED bulbs for home coming this year; With Solar Valley, China embarks on bold green technology mission; Pricing for utility green power continues to fall

LED Bulbs for the Home Near the Marketplace

The prospects of replacing today's inefficient incandescent light bulbs with long-lasting, low-power LEDs are increasing.

Two of the lighting industry's three biggest manufacturers, Osram Sylvania and Philips, plan to sell energy-efficient LED bulbs this year that can replace a 60-watt bulb, the most commonly used incandescent lamp.

The third company, General Electric, will sell an LED equivalent to a 40-watt bulb this year, but it will not have a...

War on science: Alabama's "True Republican" TV ad mocks evolution

In the current Alabama gubernatorial primary race, there's some serious mudslinging and general ugliness going on. True Republican PAC recently produced this campaign ad attacking conservative candidate Bradley Byrne for not being conservative enough. His crime? Bradley Byrne might believe in evolution!

Technorati reports the story and posts the "True Republican" TV ad:

Not to fear.   GOP gubernatorial candidate Byrne quickly defended his beliefs:

As a Christian and as a public servant, I...

Jerome Ringo: BP disaster demands national shift - "It will be even more tragic if we ... refuse to adopt new energy policies that will increase public health and safety while creating a new generation of clean energy jobs."

Guest blogger Jerome Ringo has worked as chairman of the National Wildlife Federation and President of the Apollo Alliance. Prior to that he spent 22 years in the petrochemical industry.  This is a repost.

As someone who worked for more than 20 years in Louisiana's oil fields and petrochemical industry, I am sad to say I was not surprised by the catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

During my youth, I saw bayous contaminated by toxic chemicals that destroyed the fish and other...

Drive down car emissions with a jolt of sunshine

Do solar charging stations for electric cars and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles make sense?

The idea was discussed at a recent Congressional briefing "Reducing Oil Dependence through Energy and Climate Policy," presented by the Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI).  Guest blogger and former CAP staffer  Alexandra Kougentakis has the story.

Solar energy and hybrid electric vehicles would be effective in achieving emission reductions both from transportation AND electricity...

Kerry Emanuel slams media, asserts Lindzen charge in Boston Globe is "pure fabrication" - Worst news article ever published on global warming?

UPDATE:  I emailed MIT atmospheric scientist Kerry Emanuel about the smear that Richard Lindzen launched at him with the help of a credulous Boston Globe reporter stenographer.  His reply is below.

I've been bombarded with emails from folks stunned by a shamefully bad Globe article by Beth Daley, "A cooling trend."  It certainly qualifies as one of the worst news articles ever published on global warming.

But is it the worst piece ever?  I'd love your thoughts.  The competition for that title i...

Worst news article ever published on global warming?

I've been bombarded with emails from folks stunned by a shamefully bad Boston Globe article by Beth Daley, "A cooling trend."  It certainly qualifies as one of the worst news articles ever published on global warming.

But is it the worst piece ever?  I'd love your thoughts.  The competition for that title is, unfortunately, very tough (see "And the 2009 "Citizen Kane" award for non-excellence in climate journalism goes to …")

The piece does have the four horsemen of awful climate journalism:  ...

NASA: Easily the hottest April — and hottest Jan-April — in temperature record - Plus a new record 12-month global temperature, as predicted

It was the hottest April on record in the NASA dataset.  More significantly, following fast on the heels of the hottest March and hottest Jan-Feb-March on record, it's also the hottest Jan-Feb-March-April on record [click on figure to enlarge:].

The record temperatures we're seeing now are especially impressive because we've been in "the deepest solar minimum in nearly a century." It now appears to be over. It's just hard to stop the march of manmade global warming, well, other than by...